One in a Series of Articles in the Next 24 Hours

The following articles appearing on A Crooked Path may at first look appear purely political, or purely a current event, but they go deeper and directly to the heart and mind, the continuing decline in the spiritual health of a nation. The moral and spiritual rot and decline accelerating throughout America, the West, and all the world.

While the subject matter of the following articles might seem unfit for a place stating it is a Christian faith-based website, made straight by the Word of God, every act, everything that occurs on this earth — everything — is within the framework of the Biblical times in which we live and goes directly to the lost state of massive populations of people. Of the erosion, corruption, and decline in leadership. Of the rampant and escalating immoralities, lies, and delusions present in our leaders, in our people, in the leaders and people of the world.

A corrupt and fallen world. A corrupt and perverse people. A people in great darkness and falling into greater delusion, greater lies, evil ways. If that is possible. And it is.

Some of the articles that will appear here this night will be upsetting. They ought to be. Some will cause the reader to doubt what they are reading is factual. And it will make many uncomfortable. Many even angry.

Don’t be angered. Be directed and led to use this information for increased spiritual wisdom and understanding. To hone, refine and strengthen your spiritual walk.

Be directed to greater, bolder, deeper larger praying. Leaving yourself out of those prayers accept to ask in faith for God to increase your faith, your spiritual wisdom, and understanding, your knowledge and that His will be done on earth, as in heaven, and that His Kingdom come. Faithfully knowing that we may not understand how what is happening can and will eventually work to good, but it will.

Not the evil being done. Not the awful sin and carnage, lies, immoralities, and every abomination taking place in greater numbers. No! Heaven forbid! Do not misunderstand. But all that is taking place is taking place for a reason. And while we may want to stop the pain, stop the violence, stop the death and destruction, halt the sin, halt all the perceived bad things according to our ways and understanding know there is coming a time when justice, God’s justice will be met out and all will be understood.

We are not the power. It’s not about us.

God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit is the power. It’s all about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. And are we believing? Are we faithful? Are we knowledgeable and growing, becoming mature in the faith? Are we bearing fruit? Are we making God and our salvation and the salvation of others our priority? Are we able to understand what is happening and separate it wisely, in a healthy manner? Understanding the true nature of human beings and not being misled by all the worldly teachings, the false teachings about how good people are and how people can make this world a better place…if only.

The if only…

is missing the competition by everyone along those lines of thinking in that they never bring God, believing and following as a true disciple, the Holy Spirt, or the Bible into the conversation and equation. I write now of every person in the world, and at this place in time the overwhelming majority of professed Christians. Who are misled by vainly believing they can create the kingdom of God on earth. Themselves. If only…

By their power and will. Leaving God out of things.

If only…

They would come out of the darkness, leave the false teachings, and follow the doctrines of the Bible rather than the doctrines of man.

Lastly, do not misunderstand. I am not railing against the government or demeaning government or the offices of our country or any country. God created human government. God ordained the offices. We are to respect the offices. The power behind those, which is God. Not the revolving door of men and women passing through.

Too many are enraptured in politics, in nationalism, in whether they are this label or that one. And in all the noise and distractions they repeatedly fail to see Who and what they ought to be placing their faith in and following. Where and with Who, and how, and what they ought to be placing more of their time and attention.

Are we true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ? According to the Word of God. Not what we might say or think, or what some modern-day unsound doctrine might say. According to the Word of God are we truly transformed? Born anew? Jesus’ disciples? True children of God and not this worlds?

Pondering those matters.

Rather than all these earthly matters.

As horrific, as troubling as they can be, as awful as they are. And many will be paid out here tonight.

Read the Bible.

There have always been horrific things, awful things, evil people, evil and terrible events.

Why?

Not because of God…

God created perfection and Paradise FOR man, FOR woman.

And who turned that to dung by their will and disobedience?

Did God?

No, but the overwhelming majority, even those that claim they don’t believe in God blame God for everything. “How can a loving God allow…?”

Simple, folks. Because the earth still exists. It’s full of people. All who are sinners and it is our sinful natures, OUR DOING that all this happens. God didn’t make this world as it is now and has been since Adam and Eve disobeyed. We the people, our natures, our rebellion built-in, our sin has made the world as it has been all these thousands of years. Stop blaming God. Stop questioning God. Stop expecting God to fix everything you don’t like. It will not happen with all these people and all our sin and rebellion folks.

We have wrought what we have by our rebellion and disobedience towards God.

Yes, there most certainly is Divine Providence. A lot of it.

But if you want all the terrible things to end?

Then the world ends.

And it will.

Because not until the Lord’s work is done and not until the last soul that comes to believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour and they commit their heart, their lives to Jesus, and after that last person does? And there is so much sin, so many terrible things taking place on earth, and it becomes so awful that unless God shortened the days even the elect would be lost?

Then will it all change. According to the Word of God.

And everything that you see and hear that makes you sad, makes you cringe, makes you want to turn the TV off, shut things out, get off this page of A Crooked Path, and you’d just like to have 3 wishes to make the world a better place it’s become so dreadful, violent, immoral, unrighteous and wicked (example — Harvard University just hired an atheist to be the Chaplain at that school. Why? Because more than 40% of young people are not religious and don’t believe, yet this atheist has been hired to be the Chaplain to supposed Christian, Jewish and young people professing various faiths. He’s also the Chaplain to Hindu’s you name it — THIS is the lost, evil state of things on this earth, in this spiritually diseased land. The Lord will be returning — sooner than later, dear ones, sooner than later. So, increase in spiritual faith, knowledge, strength, wisdom, and understanding. Daily. Nightly. Continually) that isn’t going to happen until the Lord Jesus Christ does return.

In the meantime? Until then?

Suit up! Armour up! Wisdom and understanding and knowledge up! Grow up in spiritual maturity and spiritual matters and come to see and understand what is happening and why.

And if you’ve been putting faith in a government? A man, a woman? A political party? A nation? A manmade document? An election?

Well, you’d better get your priorities and life in order. Now. Not later.

And while I may rail against certain men and various actions I respect the authority established and ordained by God. I respect the offices. The government was established. That’s one thing that is so upsetting — because those that are within those offices and governments ordained by God do not truly see God, know God, turn to God — not really — for if they did? While it might not be the Garden of Eden before Adam and Eve listened to the devil rather than God it sure would be a different place and places and people than it is.

And it’s only going to get worse. Not better. Because of the wickedness, the immorality, the rebellion, the false teachings, the false teachers, the liars and their lies, the delusion, the sin will only metastasize and grow. To ever deadly and terrible proportions. The darkness will only increase.

If doubting this, or not liking it?

It’s not according to me. It’s according to the Word of God. Because of the hearts and minds of men and women and many children at this place in world history.

There are answers. All the right ones. There is a truth to be known, found, and discovered that can change everything. For the better, in the long run, as eternally. For an INDIVIDUAL. And that is found, only found, always found in the inerrant infallible living and active Word of God.

Come to understand why the things that are happening are taking place. It can be understood. Increase in knowledge, in wisdom, in understanding. God didn’t create human beings with the large functioning brains in their heads that He did merely as filler. Or to be so preoccupied with what game is on Sunday, what’s on TV tonight, or to not be able to discern the times. Know the signs.

Ask for wisdom, spiritual wisdom, in FAITH, and it will be given. Ask for spiritual blessings and they will be given, when prayed fr faithfully. Not according to our will, but according to God’s will.

Let’s live lives aspiring to heaven rather than continually attempting to lower God to our base level, or not think of Him at all.

Now the articles for this evening and perhaps into the morning…

Ken Pullen

Friday, August 27th, 2021 (my younger sister would have turned 63 today, had she not died in December of 2003, died as an unbeliever).

ACP — A Crooked Path

My brief comment about the following? Wait until all these in such darkness and sin find themselves in the words of Revelation chapter 19…

While Afghanistan Fell, Military and CIA Focused on Diversity

August 25, 2021

By Daniel Greenfield

Reprinted from Jihad Watch

Milley should have studied Muslim rage, instead of white rage.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

“I want to understand white rage, and I’m white,” Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whined at a congressional hearing.

He might have done better to understand Muslim rage.

A week after his testimony, the Taliban had not only doubled their number of districts, but possessed hundreds of captured U.S. armored vehicles, along with artillery and drones.

The Pentagon’s spokesman told reporters to ask the Afghan military about the gear.

In May, Milley had shrugged off questions about whether the Afghan military would survive. “We frankly don’t know yet. We have to wait and see how things develop over the summer.”

The Afghan military was beginning to fall apart while Milley was defending critical race theory.

A week earlier, the New York Times had described “demoralized” Afghan forces “abandoning checkpoints and bases en masse.” Two days after Milley’s disgraceful performance, the media reported that even the Taliban were “surprised” at how fast they were advancing.

At the beginning of July, the Biden administration abandoned Bagram Air Force Base. A week later the Taliban reclaimed the Panjwayi District where the Jihadist movement had gotten its start, seized the largest border crossing with Iran and the millions in revenue that came with it.

The United States Army responded by announcing that it was putting “a renewed emphasis on diversity, inclusion, and equity” or DEI. Had the brass ordered it as diversity, inclusion, and equity, the resulting acronym would have been more reflective of the real world.

While the Taliban were conquering Afghanistan’s rural provinces and then moving on to besieging its cities, the Army was wrestling with the “effective messaging that demonstrates why DEI efforts are critical to the success of the Army”. The new messaging would explain how the “talents of a diverse workforce” that included “language, race, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity” were vital to whatever its mission was.

The Taliban, who were mostly Sunni Islamist Pashtun tribesmen, would spend the next two months demonstrating that diversity was not a strength, but a serious weakness.

While the Afghan government and its military were divided between diverse tribal factions, some of whom would flee to Iran and others to Uzbekistan (depending on whether they were Hazaras or Uzbeks) while the Pashtuns would surrender to their fellow Taliban tribesmen, the Taliban showed that unity would stomp diversity in the face and then dance on its grave.

Meanwhile the military brass in this country, as discussed in my recent pamphlet, Disloyal: How the Military Brass is Betraying Our Country, was busy dividing our own military from within in pursuit of diversity, pitting black and white service members against each other in “critical conversations” and urging them to accuse their country and services of “systemic racism”.

As the Army brass were striving to establish the “Army as a global leader in DEI”, America’s enemies were plotting to become global leaders in land, power, and military victories.

By late July, Milley admitted that, “Strategic momentum appears to be sort of with the Taliban.”

By “sort of”, Milley meant that the Taliban had more than doubled their territory again and were marching on half of the provincial capitals.

Few reporters asked follow-up questions about the “sort of” because the leading story in D.C. was an anti-Trump book which flatteringly portrayed Milley as preventing a Trump “coup”.

No one, from the media to Milley, cared about the actual coup underway in Afghanistan.

“This department will be diverse. It will be inclusive,” Biden’s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin insisted. “I’m committed to that. This department is committed to that. The chairman’s committed to that.”

While Biden’s brass were pledging allegiance to diversity, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi welcomed Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to the People’s Republic of China. Yi praised the Taliban as a “a pivotal military and political force” and mocked the United States.

The United States Army was busy “developing and implementing a strategic plan to advance DEI across the Total Force” as the Taliban seized the capitals of Helmand and Herat.

But the Navy faced its own crisis when Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell Jr. warned at a DEI panel at the Sea Air Space conference that removing photos from promotion boards, a diversity measure from last year, actually undermined diversity because the brass no longer knew exactly how many minorities they were artificially promoting to fit diversity quotas.

While the Navy was grappling with this dark night of the soul, Staff Sgt. Nicholas Jones with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion received the Navy Cross for his heroism during a six-hour battle with ISIS last year during which he rescued a French ally and risked his life to try and rescue two wounded comrades.

Jones “continued fighting until forcibly evacuated”.

Sadly, Jones is a straight white man from Kansas, and doesn’t really fit the DEI template, but in happier diversity defense news, the new Navy Secretary is an immigrant,  the first female sailor graduated from Naval Special Warfare training, and the Naval Institute published a confession by Lieutenant Commander David Elsenbeck that he was “unconsciously biased” and a “member of the dominant group in a society suffering from institutionalized and historically ingrained bias”.

Eisenbeck urged immediate “bias education”.

American POWs used to be starved, beaten, and had bamboo shoots driven under their fingernails without repeating the Marxist dogma they were being indoctrinated with. But hardly a week goes by now without another litany of Marxist confessions at military struggle sessions.

The Taliban, who actually are a member of the dominant group, began swallowing up a series of provincial capitals and marrying off young girls to their Jihadists. Back home, the Virginia Military Institute’s first-ever Chief Diversity Officer, Jamica Love, announced that she intended to pursue “institutional change” to transform the VMI’s culture. That’s what the Taliban were also up to.

While the Taliban advanced, CIA Director William Burns commented that increasing “diversity and inclusion” was among his top priorities. “We cannot be effective around the world if everybody looks like me,” he complained. To that end the CIA had unrolled an ad campaign featuring a Latina cisgender intersectional worker wearing a pink gender power clenched fist t-shirt. But the widely hated woke ad was only the tip of the agency’s diversity iceberg.

“At CIA, we don’t just leverage diversity, equity, and inclusion; we embrace and celebrate it,” an agency diversity report insisted. “This ethos must be woven in to our day-to-day tasks.”

How were diversity and equity woven into the task of monitoring the Taliban’s advance?

No one knows. But, like the military, the CIA went on holding “critical conversations” in which minority employees were encouraged to spout racism accusations.

Sonya Holt, Deputy Associate Director of CIA for Talent for Diversity and Inclusion, who had started out as a mere recruiter, assured that through DEI, “the Agency will be better prepared to address intelligence challenges and support its customers.”

While CIA officers were learning “how diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to mission success”, the agency began belatedly considering how to extract its assets from Afghanistan.

Recent intelligence reports “warned that Kabul could fall to the Taliban within years”.

But while the CIA tried to figure out how it would collect intelligence on the Taliban after the withdrawal, its employees did have the benefit of 15 affinity groups including ANGLE (Agency Network of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Officers and Allies), DAC (Deaf Advisory Council) and SALAAM (South Asian Leadership and Advisory Membership.)

The CIA was also working to hire “neurodiverse” personnel, which it defined as people suffering from ADD, Dyslexia, or Tourette’s Syndrome. Or as the CIA ‘wokely’ put it “differences labeled with” these syndromes.

Key Afghan figures had warned that there was a conspiracy underway to hand Afghanistan to the Taliban. The drumroll surrenders of cities and much of the Afghan military appeared to confirm that backroom deals had been made. The obvious players able to pull off such deals were Pakistan’s ISI spy agency, the original backers of the Taliban, along with Turkey and Qatar.

Biden’s CIA director had turned to Pakistan in the hopes of allowing the agency to run a spy base in the country that had harbored Osama bin Laden. The Biden administration’s military and diplomatic response to the Taliban was being run out of Qatar. And it had handed security at  Kabul Airport over to Turkey before frantically taking it back when the Taliban took the city.

The CIA should have been on top of this, but it had better things to do with its time.

An unclassified intelligence community report did warn that the Taliban was “broadly consistent in its restrictive approach to women’s rights.”

The Taliban have now taken over Afghanistan, but it’s not all bad news on the military front.

”While Trump administration Pentagon nominees were overwhelmingly white and male, the Biden administration says 54% of its national security nominees ― to the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development ― are women, 40% are people of color, and at least 7% identify as lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer,” the publication thrillingly reports.

Better yet, “recent weeks saw two lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer women confirmed to top military positions. Air Force Undersecretary Gina Ortiz Jones is the first out lesbian to serve as undersecretary of a military branch, while Shawn Skelly, the assistant secretary of defense for readiness, is the first out transgender person in the job and highest-ranking out transgender defense official in U.S. history.”

The State Department is doing its part by asking the Taliban to form an “inclusive and representative government.” And if they refuse to have as many neurodiverse black transgender defense officials as us, Biden won’t give them any more humvees, artillery, choppers, or drones.

The Taliban may have won Afghanistan, but we’re winning the diversity race. And since diversity is more important than winning wars or being a military superpower, we’re beating the Taliban. Not to mention Russia, China, and Iran in the field of transgender defense officials.

As I warned in the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s booklet, Disloyal: How the Military Brass is Betraying Our Country, wokeness is leading our military to disaster, disgrace, and defeat.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, (sorry, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is at “the heart of everything” that Biden’s military does and our performance reflects the focus on DEI.

Afghanistan is a disaster, but we’ll have the most diverse military in the world or DEI trying.